High Court of Karnataka — Commercial Appeal by the defendant (appellant) against the Judgment and Decree passed in a Commercial Appeal by the Prl. District and Sessions Judge and Commercial Court, whereby the suit of the respondent-plaintiff — a sole trading company operating as '…heetal Trading Company' (initial character illegible) — for recovery of money with interest at 10% per annum stood confirmed. Pleaded matrix: the plaintiff supplied food-grains to five Morarji Residential Schools in Raichur Taluka during January–February on an order routed through 'M/s Angalore', the defendant having undertaken to reimburse the cost; the defendant contended that the plaintiff acted merely as its agent, that its liability to pay the plaintiff was conditional upon realization of funds from 'M/s', that the arrangement was oral and unsupported by any written contract, and that non-impleading of 'M/s' rendered the suit bad in law. Held: (i) the plain reading of the defendant's own written statement, excerpts whereof were reproduced in the judgment, clearly establishes the transaction with the plaintiff and the outstanding dues; (ii) the contention that payment was conditional upon receipt of funds from 'M/s' is unsupported by any cogent evidence; and (iii) any internal arrangement between the defendant and 'M/s' is irrelevant to the plaintiff's lawful claim, as rightly held by the Trial Court. The Trial Court's Judgment and Decree warranted no interference; the Commercial Appeal was dismissed and the impugned Judgment and Decree stands confirmed. Caveat: party names, dates, the appeal number and exact monetary figures are not legible in the corrupted source text.